Course Title: Identify hazards and assess OHS risks
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2014
Course Code: OHTH5590C
Course Title: Identify hazards and assess OHS risks
School: 130T Vocational Engineering
Campus: City Campus
Program: C4338 - Certificate IV in Plumbing and Services
Course Contact: Program Manager
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4468
Course Contact Email: vocengineering@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Sebastian La Rocca
99254606
Warren James - Program Manager – School of engineering TAFE
Tel: +61 3 9925 4632
Email: warren.james@rmit.edu.au
Building 70 Level 3
Nominal Hours: 60
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
Nil.
Course Description
This unit of competency could be assessed in the workplace or a close simulation of the workplace environment providing that simulated or project-based assessment techniques fully replicate plumbing and services workplace conditions, materials, activities, responsibilities and procedures.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
BSBOHS403B Identify hazards and assess OHS risks |
Element: |
1. Investigate incidents for prevention |
Element: |
2. Access existing sources of information and data to identify hazards |
Element: |
3. Conduct hazard identification |
Element: |
4. Assess risk |
Element: |
5. Participate in implementation |
Element: |
1. Investigate incidents for prevention 2. Access existing sources of information and data to identify hazards 3. Conduct hazard identification 4. Assess risk 5. Participate in implementation |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1. Select and use appropriate techniques to investigate incidents 2.1. Review workplace sources of information and data to access information and data, and to assist in identifying hazards 3.1. Seek formal and informal techniques and tools to identify hazards 4.1. Select and use a risk assessment tool to identify key factors contributing to risk 5.1. Maintain a hazard register relevant to the workplace |
Learning Outcomes
Refer to elements
Details of Learning Activities
Students to complete written questioning to underpinning knowledge
Read and complete all five activities in workbook
Complete three assessment tasks
Teaching Schedule
This course involves the delivery of following key topics over 10 sessions (10 Weeks).
Week beginning/Session | Topic | Elements & performance criteria mapping | Learning resources/activities | Assessments task |
Session 1 | Induction WHS Introduction to the unit. Understanding the reasons for Investigating Incidents, Identifying Hazards and assessing risk |
1. Investigate incidents for prevention.1.1, 1.2, 1.3, & 1.4 | RMIT Induction PowerPoint (building 70)
Activity 1 - 6 work book quizzes |
Pre training review (LLN)
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Session 2 | Accessing information and data | 2. Access existing sources of information and data to identify hazards, 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3. | Activity 7 – 9 work book quizzes
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Developmental activity 2-in class written demonstration of supporting knowledge (open book) |
Session 3 | Sourcing Hazard Identification Techniques and Tools | 3. Conduct hazard identification 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4. |
Activity 10-13 work book quizzes | |
Session 4 | Sourcing Hazard Identification Techniques and Tools | 3. Conduct hazard identification, 3.5. | Developmental activity 3 group brainstorming activity-in class |
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Session 5 | Risk assessment | 4. Assessing risk, 4.1 & 4.2 | Activity 14 – 16 work book quizzes | |
Session 6 | Risk assessment | 4. Assessing risk, 4.3 4.4 & 4.5 | Activity 17 – 18 work book quizzes | Developmental activity 4-in class written demonstration of supporting knowledge (open book) |
Session 7 | Participate in implementation process | 5. Maintaining a hazard register, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 & 5.4 | Activity 19-21 work book quizzes |
Developmental activity 5-in class written demonstration of supporting knowledge (open book) |
Session 8 | Assessment Task 1 | Investigate incidents for prevention, identify hazards, assess and control risk. | ||
Session 9 | Assessment Task 2 | Conduct hazard identification, assess risk & participate in implementation process | ||
Session 10 | Assessment Task 3 | Submit portfolio of work |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
There are no prescribed Textbooks. Class notes (work book) and references will be provided to students. |
References
• codes of practice |
Other Resources
Workplace sources of information and data
• audits
• hazard, incident and investigation reports
• incident investigations
• legislation, standards, manufacturers’ manuals and specifications available at the workplace
• material safety data sheets (MSDSs) and registers
• minutes of meetings
• reports
• workplace inspections
Overview of Assessment
Assessment may incorporate a variety of methods including written/oral activities and demonstration of practical skills to the relevant industry standards. Participants are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment activities to their teacher/assessor. Feedback will be provided throughout the course.
Assessment Tasks
Students must pass each of the following assessment tasks to demonstrate competent.
Assessment | |
Task 1 |
Workbook Activities |
Task 2 |
Assessment 1 |
Task 3 |
Assessment 2 |
These tasks assesses the following Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):
Assessment Mapping Matrix
Elements/ Performance Criteria Covered |
Task 1 |
Task 2 |
Task 3 |
1.1 |
x |
x |
x |
1.2 |
x |
x |
x |
1.3 |
x |
x |
x |
1.4 |
x |
x |
x |
2.1 |
x |
x |
x |
2.2 |
x |
x |
x |
2.3 |
x |
x |
x |
3.1 |
x |
x |
x |
3.2 |
x |
x |
x |
3.3 |
x |
x |
x |
3.4 |
x |
x |
x |
3.5 |
x |
x |
x |
4.1 |
x |
x |
x |
4.2 |
x |
x |
x |
4.3 |
x |
x |
x |
4.4 |
x |
x |
x |
4.5 |
x |
x |
x |
5.1 |
x |
x |
x |
5.2 |
x |
x |
x |
5.3 |
x |
x |
x |
5.4 |
x |
x |
x |
To be deemed competent you must demonstrate an understanding of all aspects required of the competency. Assessment methods have been designed to measure your achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over multiple tasks.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment task one,submit completed assignment
Assessment task two,submit completed assignment
Assessment task three, Students to submit answers to the five Developmental activitys from the BSBOHS403B Participants Guide as a portfolio of evedence of progression through the learning program
Students are required to complete three different types of assessment tasks, work book quizzes worth 20% in total, Developmental activity 30% and Assessment tasks worth 50%.
Successful completion is achieved if the student attains at least 50% of total mark for each type of assessment task AND his/her accumulation of marks is NOT less than 50% of all the assessment tasks.
Grading Criteria:
NYC - Not yet competent
DNS - Did not submit
CA - Competence Achieved
Assessment Matrix
Assessment Task Element Percentage Weighting
1. Quizzes Element 1 to 5 20%
2. Developmental activity 30%
3. Assessment tasks 50%
Other Information
Academic Misconduct
Students are reminded that cheating, whether by fabrication, falsification of data, or plagiarism, is an offence subject to University disciplinary procedures. Plagiarism in oral or written presentations is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of another person, without appropriate referencing, as though it is one’s own. Plagiarism is not acceptable.
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